From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training
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Starting an assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training
Starting an assembly
- [Instructor] Once you've designed several parts inside of Solidworks the next logical step is going to be to combine those parts together into an assembly. So to get started we need to open several more parts and then we're going to go ahead and build an assembly from them. So, right over here I'm going to click on the File Open or you come right up here to the top of the screen here and click on Open right up there. And I happen to be in chapter 11.11_01 and I already have this part here, which is the 11.1.1 open. I'm going to open this next three here. So I'm going to hold down Shift and select those next three parts and then go ahead and click on Open. So each one of those should open up, and then what I can do is go to Window, Tile Horizontally, and you can see all the individual parts that happen to be opened up. Now, we need to choose which one of these parts we want to be our original part that's going to go…
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Starting an assembly2m 41s
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Copying, moving, and rotating parts3m 12s
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Mating parts together in an assembly6m 19s
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Working with subassemblies2m 59s
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Making linear patterns4m 11s
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Creating circular patterns2m 48s
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Using the Toolbox3m 46s
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Downloading internet parts4m 6s
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